by Debra Claffey | Jun 15, 2019 | Events, Updates, Workshops
SO much fun teaching today at the Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens Educational Center. What a great group of artists!!! We introduced using cold wax medium with oils on Arches Oil...
by DCadmin | Mar 23, 2019 | Blog--Making Something Out of Nothing, Exhibition catalog, Exhibitions, Updates
← The Reception at Gateway Gallery I’m very proud to make available a catalog of the exhibition at the Springfield Museums that my colleagues and I have put together. The show features work by Pat Gerkin, Donna Hamil Talman, Charyl Weissbach and me, at the...
by DCadmin | Mar 15, 2019 | Blog--Making Something Out of Nothing, Events, Exhibitions
Many thanks to Annette Cohen and the staff at Great Bay Community College in Portsmouth, for the great reception at Gateway Gallery last evening ((March 14, 2019). Thank you all who came out to see the big work. It was an absolute delight to have enough...
by Debra Claffey | Oct 19, 2017 | Blog--Making Something Out of Nothing, Thoughts
Looking at work and thinking up ideas for a collaboration with poet A. Khaki for WCA/NH Text and Textiles project...
by Debra Claffey | Oct 8, 2017 | Blog--Making Something Out of Nothing
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by Debra Claffey | Aug 5, 2016 | Blog--Making Something Out of Nothing, Events, Exhibitions
Last evening Twiggs Gallery hosted a reception for Balancing Acts, a small show of encaustic work that I was delighted to curate. Summer in the country, evening breezes beginning to cool what was a beautiful, blue-sky day. Artist-owner Adele Sanborn’s creation,...
by Debra Claffey | Aug 2, 2016 | Blog--Making Something Out of Nothing, Exhibitions, Interviews, Thoughts
One of the delightful parts of curating this exhibition was discovering how many artists contemplate this idea of balance in our work and in our lives. I had some questions for Pamala Crabb, an artist living in Maine, who works with wax and encaustic in paintings,...
by Debra Claffey | Jul 31, 2016 | Blog--Making Something Out of Nothing, Exhibitions, Interviews
Hélène Farrar, What We Carry: The Balance, encaustic on panel, 30 x 22 inches Hélène Farrar, What We Carry: Later On, encaustic and painted small person model, 4 x 4 inches Hélène Farrar, What We Carry: Middle Age,...
by Debra Claffey | Jul 31, 2016 | Blog--Making Something Out of Nothing, Exhibitions, Interviews
Angel Dean Angel Dean is an artist in Providence, Rhode Island. The work of hers that I chose for Balancing Acts at Twiggs Gallery spoke to me of “precarious balance” in the juxtaposition of so many disparate objects. She turns our throwaways into art that...
by Debra Claffey | Nov 7, 2010 | Blog--Making Something Out of Nothing, Events, Exhibitions
The Museum School Art Sale Now in its 30th year, with thousands of works on a changing rotation, priced by the artists and sold to benefit student scholarships. Wednesday, November 17–Sunday, November 21 Wednesday, 12–8 pm, Opening Celebration 5–8 pm Thursday,...
